Ruohan Xie's Newsletter Archive

Mon, Nov 19 2018

The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It's still waiting. In the uncertain years after Mao's death, long before China became an industrial juggernaut, before the Communist Party went on a winning streak that…

Imagine you have to make a bet. There are two 18-year-olds, one in China, the other in the United States, both poor and short on prospects. You have to pick the one with the better chance at upward mobility. Not long ago, the answer might have…

HONG KONG — For years, this city was neither genuinely democratic nor entirely authoritarian. Its politics had both democratic and authoritarian elements, though on balance those were more democratic than authoritarian. Hong Kong's…